Ever since its first announcement, I’ve been taking the news of Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom with a grain of salt. I’ve been disenchanted with Capcom’s “Vs” line of games for almost seven years. After Capcom Fighting Evolution, I believed that Capcom’s crossover-themed fighters were nothing more than for novelty’s sake…lazy design with flawed, boring gameplay.

However, after seeing this first trailer of Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom, I may be coming around! It has the 3D toon shaded graphics applied to fast 2D gameplay that I’ve been eager for. (Street Fighter IV looks great, but still too sluggish in speed for my tastes.) The gameplay looks true to the “Vs” games that I did enjoy, without the excess that Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 reeked of. It surprisingly looks fun!

I’m kinda hoping that it gets ported stateside, but I know that’s a tall order. When it comes to large companies like Tatsunoko, it becomes painstaking and expensive to bring together all the companies that have license to those characters in North America. So the same licensing issues that have saved us from a Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 now prevent us from a potentially worthwhile game Perhaps, if this game lives up to its hype, I may import it whenever I get around to getting a PS3.

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